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Security company is replacing a mall robot that fell into a fountain to the Internet’s delight | New York Times
This is probably not the security droid we’re looking for. The egg-shaped robot, known as the K5 Autonomous Data Machine, drew sympathy and jeers on Monday after it stumbled down a set of steps and ...
19 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Buzz of drones is more annoying than any other kind of vehicle | New Scientist
Amazon, UPS, Domino’s Pizza and other companies planning drone delivery services may be heading for discord. A preliminary NASA study has discovered that people find the noise of drones more annoyin...
18 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
BB-8 flies? Japanese drone ball tours Space Station | Space.com
Space watchers have seen footballs, mini-soccer balls and water balls float through the International Space Station — but never a drone ball. Now, new footage of a spherical Japanese robot shows i...
18 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
This robot is designed to keep people safe, but it fell in a fountain and couldn’t get up | Business Insider
The Knightscope K5 security robot's job is to be on the look out for crime. It might also want to keep an eye on where it's going. Officer workers at the Georgetown Harbour office and retail space in ...
17 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Beating the heat: Thermal Testing [Waymo] in Death Valley | Medium
In early spring, our self-driving minivans visited Lake Tahoe during record snowfall. Now, we’re tackling the other end of the temperature spectrum. After a three-day road trip from Davis Dam to Las...
17 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Watch the world’s fastest drone drag-race into the record books | MIT Tech Review
Blink and you might actually miss the Drone Racing League’s new RacerX drone, which has just been clocked at a record speed of nearly 180 miles per hour.
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14 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Want a robot that can really feel? Give it whiskers | WIRED
AMONG THE MANY reasons humans are bizarre among mammals (the dearth of body hair, the bipedalism, the fact that someone invented the turducken) is a sad shortcoming: You and I don’t have sensory wh...
14 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
China’s grip on maps hinders self-driving car makers | The Wall Street Journal
China is creating roadblocks for U.S. auto makers and tech companies to bringing self-driving cars to the world’s largest auto market.
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13 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Lifelike robots joke about taking over the world, say that humans are not the most ethical creatures | The Independent
A pair of lifelike robots have debated the future of humanity at a technology conference in Hong Kong. The machines, named Han and Sophia, discussed people’s limitations and robot’s plans to take ...
13 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Audi’s new A8 shows how robocars can work with humans | WIRED
In 2012 the engineers working on Google’s self-driving car realized they had a problem. Early testers had agreed to always watch the road in case of emergencies, but many didn’t—and it put them...
11 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Asimov’s laws won’t stop robots harming humans so we’ve developed a better solution | Scientific American
Instead of laws to restrict robot behavior, robots should be empowered to pick the best solution for any given scenario.
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11 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Undersea robot reveals ‘schools’ of animals in deep scattering layers | Phys.org
Throughout the world ocean, animals congregate at certain depths, forming layers that can be hundreds of meters thick and may extend horizontally for dozens or even hundreds of kilometers. Because the...
10 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Could a robot be president? | Politico
...Now, a small group of scientists and thinkers believes there could be an alternative, a way to save the president—and the rest of us—from him- or herself. As soon as technology advances far eno...
10 July 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
This robot-made pizza in Silicon Valley should terrify Domino’s and Pizza Hut | Business Insider
Robots could kill off huge swaths of jobs in the future — but at least they come bearing pizza. Founded in 2015, Zume Pizza uses robotics and artificial intelligence to make pizza more quickly. The ...
28 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Amazon’s vision for the future: delivery drone beehives in every city | The Verge
Amazon’s drone delivery program stopped being a joke a while ago, but the company still has to overcome serious challenges to make the technology actually work. One of these is getting drones near e...
28 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Pint-pulling robot put through its paces in Yorkshire | BBC News
Students from the University of Leeds have created a robot which they claim is capable of pulling the perfect pint. The team, from the School of Mechanical Engineering, worked with local engineering c...
27 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
A job plan for robots and humans | MIT Tech Review
One perk of working for Melonee Wise’s startup Fetch is that if your feet are tired you can glide around the office on the back of a squat wheeled robot. More usually, she and her roughly 50 employe...
27 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Should robot artists be given copyright protection? | Phys.Org
When a group of museums and researchers in the Netherlands unveiled a portrait entitled The Next Rembrandt, it was something of a tease to the art world. It wasn't a long lost painting but a new artwo...
26 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Google car firm Waymo signs self-driving car deal with rental firm Avis Budget | USA Today
Former Google car project Waymo has signed a deal with Avis Budget Group to service and house a fleet of self-driving vehicles being tested in Phoenix, giving the rental car agency a foothold in the...
26 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Germany’s biggest industrial robotics company is working on consumer robots | The Verge
You might not have heard of Kuka, but you’ll almost certainly know its products. The German firm is one of the world’s top manufacturers of industrial robots, and its robot arms are instantly reco...
22 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Wireless and drone execs praised President Trump as he pledged to cut down regulations | Recode
Some of the nation’s leading wireless giants and drone makers offered effusive praise of President Donald Trump on Thursday as they lobbied his administration to eliminate the federal regulations th...
22 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Tesla replaces chief of self-driving software | Wall Street Journal
Tesla Inc. has parted ways with another senior leader on its self-driving technology team, adding more turmoil to a program that is under pressure to meet the grand ambitions of Chief Executive Elon M...
21 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Personal Food Computer: A new device for controlled-environment agriculture | arXiv
Due to their interdisciplinary nature, devices for controlled-environment agriculture have the possibility to turn into ideal tools not only to conduct research on plant phenology but also to create c...
21 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Toy maker Sphero is starting a new company to put advanced robots in the home | The Verge
Sphero is best known as the creator of toy robots, including popular movie merch for films like Star Wars, Cars, and Spider-Man. But the company has grander ambitions than that: today it announced tha...
20 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
New NASA tech tells drones why they’re broken and helps them land | WIRED
IF THE WORLD is ever going to enjoy the upsides of a sky filled with drones, the unmanned aircraft must be able to behave at least as well as human pilots. They must know how to react to other aircraf...
20 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
How drones are advancing scientific research | Phys.Org
Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have been around since the early 1900s. Originally used for military operations, they became more widely used after about 2010 when electronic technology go...
19 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Bosch to build $1.1 billion chip plant for self-driving cars | Bloomberg
Auto supplier Robert Bosch GmbH will build a 1 billion-euro ($1.1 billion) semiconductor plant, the biggest single investment in its history, as the maker of brakes and engines prepares for a surge in...
19 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
A colonoscopy robot and other weird biomedical tech from IEEE’s biggest robotics conference | IEEE Spectrum
A host of bizarre biomedical robots turned up at ICRA 2017, IEEE’s flagship robotics conference, which took place earlier this month in Singapore. We saw swallowable robots that poke the stomach w...
16 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
‘Little sunfish’ robot to swim in to Fukushima reactor | BBC News
It'll be a tough journey - previous robots sent in to the ruined nuclear reactor didn't make it back.
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16 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
This marimba-playing robot invents surprisingly nice tunes | MIT Tech Review
What has four arms, eight sticks, a brain suffused with two million musical motifs, and creates some smooth tunes? As it turns out, Shimon the marimba-playing robot.
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15 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
